Actor Swastika Mukherjee made some severe accusations in opposition to a movie producer named Sandeep Sarkar who’s co-producing her upcoming Bengali movie, Shibpur. Ahead of the movie’s launch, the actor claimed that she obtained threatening emails from Sandeep and his associates to ‘cooperate’ with them. She additionally mentioned that in addition they claimed to have her morphed, ‘nude’ photos which they threatened to leak on pornography web sites. Also learn: Swastika Mukherjee asks why she known as a ‘Bengali actress’ and never an ‘Indian actress’
Last month, Swastika has lodged a criticism at Kolkata’s Golf Green Police Station. She additionally sought assist from the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association (EIMPA). Shibpur is a political thriller, directed by Arindam Bhattacharya. Besides Swastika, it additionally has Parambrata Chatterjee, Rajatava Dutta, Mamata Shankar, Kharaj Mukhopadhyay, Susmita Mukherjee, and some extra in key roles.
Talking about her harassment, Swastika informed OTT play, “It all began fairly randomly. During all the course of taking pictures and dubbing, I’ve by no means been launched to Sandeep Sarkar. It was one other co-producer Ajanta Sinha Roy who communicated with us. Suddenly, Sandeep Sarkar began sending me threatening emails. He claimed that he was an American citizen and that if I didn’t ‘cooperate’ with them he would get in contact with the US Consulate in order that I by no means get a US visa. He additionally threatened to tug me to the Police Commissioner, Chief Minister, and so forth. Now I’ve completely no thought what this ‘cooperation’ means. I shot the movie and dubbed it and I by no means supposed to not take part in promotional actions. Initially, the movie was scheduled to launch in March. I emailed my accessible dates to them. There was no response. Later, they shifted the discharge. And but they didn’t hassle to let me know. I received to understand it from our director and once more mailed him my accessible dates. By then he was alleged to helm the promotional actions. Now, what are they even speaking about? There have been no advertising and marketing or PR plans that I obtained. In reality, after they launched the poster, I shared it on my social media additionally.”
Not solely Swastika but additionally her supervisor obtained a threatening electronic mail from an individual named Ravish Sharma who claimed to be a buddy of Sandeep Sarkar. The actor added, “He (Ravish Sharma) further claimed that he was a ‘brilliant’ computer hacker. He said that he would ‘morph’ my pictures and send them to pornography websites. Along with the email, he sent two of my images that are morphed and nude. This amounted to sexual harassment. Sandeep Sarkar admitted that they are acquaintances.”
“If I wanted, I would have talked to the media about it then. I kept quiet because I wanted the release of Shibpur to be smooth. But it does not seem to end. Everyone will vouch for the fact that I did my job diligently while shooting. I went on time and did everything in my control to portray the character truthfully. This person (Sandeep Sarkar) is saying I have extorted money. I did not get paid a dime extra beyond what was there in the contract,” the Dil Bechara actor reasoned why she maintained silence initially because it all started in March. She mentioned she went to the authorities instantly after receiving mentioned emails.
Swastika was final seen in Qala alongside Tripti Dimri and Babil Khan. Her subsequent Bengali movie, Shibpur, which was initially slated for a launch in March, will launch on May 5.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com